Idea Cellular’s Mobile data revenues were up 9.3% qoq and 61% yoy in 2QFY16. Share of data in mobile revenues increased by 190bps qoq to 19.6% in 2Q. Data traffic or volume growth was 83% yoy, driven by 118% growth in 3G traffic and 47% growth in 2G [EDGE, GPRS].Continue Reading
Idea Cellular’s pure wireless revenue growth was 8.9% qoq and 15.7% yoy. Reported standalone revenue growth was lower at 7.3% as non-mobility, non-service revenues declined meaningfully qoq. Such revenues include handset sales and external revenues from long distance services and leasing owned towers.Continue Reading
Plain vanilla Wireless Operator, Idea Cellular reported a strong Financial Year 2014 with subscribers base touching 135.8 Mn. Idea Voice traffic grew 8.6% qoq and 9.5% yoy to 157.1 bn minutes. MOU for the quarter was 397 mins/sub/month, +5.6% qoq but down 2.1% yoy. Strong voice volume growth, after threeContinue Reading
The management of Idea Cellular reiterated that it expects double-digit growth in the voice business as industry is still at ~62% VLR penetration, which offers strong growth opportunity in the voice business. However, one should note that IDEA’s FY14E traffic growth decelerated to 9% vs 17% in FY13, due toContinue Reading
Idea Cellular Ltd India’s Third Largest Wireless Company which participated in the Nov-2012 1800Mhz Spectrum Auction has said that they do not have any crunch for Spectrum to run the current Pan India 2G Voice & 3G Services in selective circles. Idea CEO Mr. Himansu Kapania addressing analysts said that,Continue Reading
Himanshu Kapnia, CEO Idea Cellular was at the Morgan Stanley 15th India Summit and he shared his perspectives on the Indian Telecom – Voice and Data Markets. On Indian Telecommunications Voice Market Over the last 2-3 years Indian Telecom sector witnessed huge battle on the competition front as result ofContinue Reading
Idea Cellular continues to execute strongly in this market, as seen by its operational trends. Idea is reducing promotional minutes in the system. It estimates that if all promotional minutes were removed, this could result in around 8-10 paisa improvement in voice yields – although it would be hard toContinue Reading
Pure Wireless Operator Idea Cellular reported that it has added 1Mn 3G Subscribers in Q1-2013. Total data subs grew by 4.5 mn to 26.2 mn. Some more metrics on Wireless Data Usage of Idea Cellular as below, Average Data Usage by Subscriber – 163MB [Down from 167 MB last Quarter]Continue Reading
It comes to me as a Rude Shock that Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular have not stopped unauthorized deductions from Pre-Paid Customers by activating Value Added Services explicitly not authorized by the customer. I had reported this fraudulent practice by Airtel 3 years ago after having experienced it myself butContinue Reading
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